Movies

Young East German men starting their compulsary 18-month military service at a Rostock garrison.

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that the Germans will win the war. During...

15-year old Klaus Kambor, called Kurbel, is living in a village in Lusatia and already thinks of himself as an adult. He can hold a lot of rhubarb...

A tale of two youngsters who want to reunite their estranged parents. Because of her work commitments, Mum has to leave the children with their...

Portrait of Interflug airline captain Günter Schneider.

1929: Marie Lehning, a farm worker from Warmsdorf on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the fisherman's son Mingo. Both complete an apprenticeship in...

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has...

An insight into the culturally and historically significant region of Hadramaut.

They are now no longer children. Young citizens distinguish themselves. The time before the Jugendweihe and its celebration. They visit Weimar, the...

A part of Earth's population are greedy and power-obsessed. They eat up and destroy everything. All of a sudden the planet Earth decides not to carry...

A portrait of Helga Hörz, professor of ethics and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

A village in the Republic celebrated its traditional clover festival in the summer of 1976. In the form of a political feuilleton, the film conveys...

Bruno Kappel is an established attorney in Hamburg who, in earlier times, belonged to an anarchistic student circle. His former girlfriend Karin...

This documentary about the Buchenwald concentration camp features interviews with survivors who describe their memories and experiences. The...

Otto is turning 65 and a big celebration with relatives and friends is coming up. What does life bring? A comfortable retirement, looking after his...

Ten days in the life of socialist politician Clara Zetkin. In August 1932, she is summoned from Archangelskoje near Moskow to open the new...

Anton and his family moved into a high-rise building. In order for the new neighbors to accept his trumpet music, he has to perform a little...

Documentary about Albrecht Dürer to mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. The film presents a panorama of the German Renaissance, in which...

Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where...

Martina and Jürgen are lovers in the GDR. She is studying economics in Leipzig, he is preparing for his master's examination as a violin maker...